{"product_id":"2026200012591-secondhand-sisters-or-citizens-women-and-socialism-in-france-since-1876","title":"Sisters Or Citizens?: Women And Socialism In France Since 1876","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of feminism and Marxism, Sisters or Citizens? presents a groundbreaking examination of the fraught and often contradictory relationship between the French socialist movement and the women who fought within its ranks, demanding equality while being denied it by the very ideology that promised liberation. Charles Sowerwine chronicles the struggles of socialist women in France from 1876 onward, tracing how figures like Louise Saumoneau and Élisabeth Renaud navigated a political landscape that simultaneously championed class solidarity and entrenched gender subordination. The book argues with compelling force that the woman question was never peripheral to French socialism — it was, in fact, a defining tension that shaped the movement's identity and limits.\n\nSowerwine's meticulous archival research and lucid, authoritative prose place Sisters or Citizens? firmly within the tradition of social history at its most rigorous, drawing on party records, correspondence, and periodicals to reconstruct lives largely absent from the official historical record. His analysis illuminates how socialist women were caught between the competing demands of class loyalty and feminist autonomy — a dilemma that resonates far beyond the borders of Third Republic France. For anyone seeking to understand why the promise of socialist feminism so often fell short of its ideals, this work remains an indispensable and unsettling reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130987356379,"sku":"2026200012591-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8cbc8b6d-0cf6-4a5e-a8d3-6d91f1f0d568.png?v=1786593691","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012591-secondhand-sisters-or-citizens-women-and-socialism-in-france-since-1876","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}